Natalia Dyer Reveals What It's Like Working With Boyfriend Charlie Heaton on 'Stranger Things'

We're just days away from season three of Stranger Thingsdropping on the 4th of July, and while much of the anticipation around the new season seems to be about breakout star and badass babysitter Joe Keery, plenty of fans are also thrilled to be reunited with amateur sleuth and crusading cub reporter Nancy Wheeler, played by Natalia Dyer.

While Dyer was initially paired with Keery on-screen, her character had an immediate connection with Jonathan Byers (Charlie Heaton). Life soon imitated art; in season two of Stranger Things, fans watched as Dyer and Heaton's chemistry play out on-screen, with Nancy and Jonathan finally acting on their attraction to one another while investigating Barb's death. Now, the two actors are now very much a couple in real life, too.

The third season will see Nancy and Jonathan embarking on another adventure together, as they attempt to solve a new supernatural mystery in the increasingly weird little town of Hawkins, Indiana. In a recent interview with Refinery 29, Dyer spoke about what it's like to film scenes with her real-life boyfriend.

"It's an interesting thing to work with somebody who you go home with. It's always really fun," she said. "We're really comfortable with each other. So we can play and feel more free, and we can talk about it before."

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Part of the chemistry that she shares with Heaton on the show stems from their interactions on the first season, she explains: "We were all very much like, 'Well, I don’t know if I’ll ever seen you again'... There’s that sense of who knows if you’ll ever work together with this person ever again? Who knows? This might be your only chance to play like this."

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While the couple have been known to post the occasional adorable pic of each other to Instagram, Dyer prefers not to talk too publicly about her relationship with Heaton: "That’s something important to me — with my family, with my friends, I really like to keep it for me."

Philip EllisPhilip Ellis is a freelance writer and journalist from the United Kingdom covering pop culture, relationships and LGBTQ+ issues.

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